Report: CSU football team to play Alabama in 2013

Dec. 7, 2012

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Coloradoan Staff

According to a tweet sent out Friday night by the official CSU Alumni Association Twitter feed, the CSU football team will play against Alabama on Sept. 21, 2013.

The tweet said that athletic director Jack Graham made the announcement at a Ram Club event in Chicago. Graham is in Chicago in advance of Saturday’s men’s basketball game between Colorado State University and the University of Chicago-Illinois.

The game will be a re-uniting of CSU coach Jim McElwain and Alabama coach Nick Saban. McElwain served as Saban’s offensive coordinator from 2008-2011 at Alabama. The pair won two national championships together.

McElwain went 4-8 in his first season at CSU, while Saban is set to coach the Crimson Tide in their third national title game in four years on Jan. 7 in Miami against Notre Dame.